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The New York Review of Books

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07/29/2010

Meritocrats

Tony Judt

I came up to King’s College, Cambridge, in 1966. Ours was ... read on

07/29/2010

The Marrying Kind

Diane Johnson

Marriage and Other Acts of Charity
by Kate ... read on

07/29/2010

Vermeer

Wislawa Szymborska, translated from the Polish by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh

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07/29/2010

South Africa: The Truth Teller

Joseph Lelyveld

South African Photographs: David Goldblatt
An ... read on

07/29/2010

The Shame of the World Cup

Tim Parks

For any practitioner of Zen who imagines he has achieved a ... read on

07/29/2010

Good-bye to Dubai

Joshua Hammer

Dubai: Gilded Cage
by Syed Ali

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07/29/2010

The CIA and WMDs: The Damning Evidence

Fulton Armstrong, reply by Thomas Powers

The following letter, by a former read on

07/29/2010

The New Challenge to Repressive Cuba

Daniel Wilkinson

For decades, the Castro government has been very effective in ... read on

07/29/2010

The Roberts Court vs. Free Speech

David Cole

Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project
a case decided by ... read on

07/29/2010

Righteous & Wrong

Malise Ruthven

The Flight of the Intellectuals
by Paul Berman ... read on

07/29/2010

'The Food Movement, Rising': An Exchange

Kevin Morgan, Joel Berg, and Ellen Finkelpearl, reply by Michael Pollan

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07/29/2010

'The Tea Party Jacobins': An Exchange

Staughton Lynd, Elliot Turiel, and David Jordan, reply by Mark Lilla

... read on


Boston Globe -- Book reviews

Find book reviews and news on authors, best sellers, fiction & non-fiction, literature, biographies, memoirs, children's books, and more from The Boston Globe.

09/01/2010

A lost way of life is recalled in book on Gloucester dorymen

On March 7, 1935, two men trawling for halibut from a Gloucester schooner off Newfoundland ... read on

09/01/2010

In memoir, Blair explains, defends himself

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is, like many interesting and accomplished individuals, a ... read on

09/01/2010

Suitable to the occasion

The Marie Claire fashion director and “Project Runway’’ judge on her new book, ... read on

08/31/2010

In ‘Bliss’ stories, angst and empathy

Ted Gilley’s characters are trapped in loneliness. Even when they’re with a lover or ... read on

08/30/2010

Talent, ambition, shadowed by secret sexuality

“Secret Historian,’’ Justin Spring’s biography of Samuel Steward, ... read on

08/30/2010

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08/30/2010

Spoken Word

Alan Khazei extols the virtues of volunteerism and service in “Big Citizenship,’’ ... read on

08/29/2010

Insulin’s discovery in the setting of one child’s life

One pivotal chapter in “Breakthrough,’’ a fast-paced true medical mystery, ... read on

08/28/2010

A tour through Israel’s history

Menachem Begin was a “demagogue first and foremost.’’ Moshe Dayan was ... read on

08/28/2010

Tracing a grand family’s aspirations through its art

“Be careful of the unwarranted gesture,’’ the distinguished ceramicist Edmund de ... read on

08/28/2010

Short Takes

BARNACLE LOVE By Anthony De Sa Algonquin, 224 pp., paperback, $13.95 These beautifully connected ... read on

08/28/2010

If your cat can sleep, he can work

Is the cat in your life pulling her weight? Are there job opportunities that have gone untapped for ... read on

08/28/2010

Franzen fever

With Jonathan Franzen’s new novel, “Freedom,” shaping up to be the big book this ... read on

08/28/2010

Yours, mine, ours

My early 20s were, typically, the poetry years. I furiously scribbled love poems that I would then ... read on

08/28/2010

Bookings

TODAY: Pat Benatar signs “Between a Heart and a Rock Place,” at 12:30 p.m., Borders ... read on

08/28/2010

At our peril

The great unrecognized global triumph of modern times is that the history of nuclear war ordinarily ... read on

08/28/2010

A taste for stories of the strange but true

Rowan Jacobsen has won multiple James Beard awards for his writing on food and place. His new book, ... read on

08/27/2010

An honest look at caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s

The core of Andrea Gillies’s memoir is a scrupulous account of her daily life as a caregiver ... read on

08/27/2010

It takes a social network

An old-fashioned telephone chat with the Brooklyn media technologist and author of "Share This! How ... read on

08/27/2010

Cover story

The first printed books came with a question: What do you do with these things?
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08/27/2010

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08/26/2010

A poignant account of the making of a mom

The world probably doesn’t need another memoir about motherhood, but it got one anyway from ... read on

08/26/2010

Hey, get your fresh local fiction here

Writers discover quickly that in today’s literary climate, finding a publisher for their work ... read on

08/25/2010

Saudi sleuths on the case in ‘City of Veils’

Zoë Ferraris’s second novel, “City of Veils’’ is as fascinating and ... read on

08/24/2010

Random House rethinks e-book deal

NEW YORK — An exclusive e-book deal between Amazon.com and the agent for such Random House ... read on

08/24/2010

Moving the veggies to the center of the plate

Everyone gets into a vegetable rut from time to time. We steam broccoli. We butter peas. We saute ... read on

08/24/2010

A life of many days newly enthralling

A decade ago Emily Fox Gordon made her debut with “Mockingbird Years: A Life In and Out of ... read on

08/23/2010

Love and struggle orbit ‘Planet’

One of the great delights in reading historical fiction is teasing out fact from invention, a ... read on

08/23/2010

Spoken word

Former Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Michael Capuzzo was looking for a new book topic when he ... read on

08/22/2010

A memoir, both touching and painful

If it’s commonly believed that the divine laughs at our plans, Amy Boesky’s family ... read on

08/21/2010

Seen through a therapist’s eyes, characters unfurl

You don’t have to be Woody Allen, a shrink, an armchair psychologist, a student of human ... read on

08/21/2010

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08/21/2010

From close-up to wide angle

If there’s an upside to fewer people reading fewer poets, it’s that you likely have ... read on

08/21/2010

Short Takes

FOUR FISH: The Future of the Last Wild Food By Paul Greenberg Penguin, 304 pp., $25.95
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08/21/2010

We are family

The central lesson of genealogy is both banal and profound: We are all related. The human race is a ... read on

08/21/2010

How things worked before cellphones

Once upon a time Peter Ackerman’s son pointed to one of the last remaining phone booths in ... read on

08/21/2010

Paying respect

Forest Hills Cemetery is as much a sculpture park as it is a burial ground. Yet the graves of ... read on

08/21/2010

Hot on the trail of clues in Europe

A trio of late summer mystery reads take armchair travelers to Europe. First stop, Italy where the ... read on

08/21/2010

Bookings

TODAY: Poets Diana Der-Hovanessian, Gail Mazur, Matthew Pearl, and David Slavitt read at 4 p.m., ... read on

08/21/2010

Growing up by going home

“Darwin was three hours from everywhere: Flora was unready to arrive.” In her wryly ... read on

08/21/2010

Giving ourselves the business

Long ago, I worked as an archivist in one of the world’s greatest repositories of business ... read on

08/21/2010

Teacher of law finds lessons of wisdom in literature

As a law student at Harvard in the late 1980s, Barack Obama was inspired by a young professor named ... read on

08/21/2010

An unflinching look at pain

You don’t have to be a masochist to derive a great deal of pleasure from Melanie ... read on

08/20/2010

Pitching Pot

Recent highlights from the Ideas blog

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08/20/2010

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08/20/2010

Unraveling tale of his grandfather leads to author’s self-discovery

You would think that a story that takes place in France and Russia, one that includes love affairs, ... read on

08/19/2010

Sort-of love story is slim and sad

In a novel, even a short one, we expect movement, change. Sometimes it’s in the story itself; ... read on

04/17/2010

Yes we can

A little more than a year since his inauguration, Barack Obama isn’t just the leader of the ... read on

02/26/2010

There's something about 'Alice'

By age 19, Emily Montaglione had read “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’’ ... read on

05/08/2009

Solving mystery of finding readers

Once, Seth Harwood intended to get his novel published the old-fashioned way: Get the pedigree, ... read on


London Review of Books

Literary review publishing essay-length book reviews and topical articles on politics, literature, history, philosophy, science and the arts by leading writers and thinkers

09/03/2010

Tony Wood: Siberia is Melting

The corridor we are standing in bristles with ice. Thick layers of what turn out, on closer ... read on

09/03/2010

Jonathan Steele: Neo-Taliban

The road from Kabul to Kandahar was once known as the Eisenhower highway. Built in the 1950s, when ... read on

09/03/2010

Jenny Turner: Tom McCarthy’s ‘C’

For the final part of this novel’s first movement, our young hero, Serge Carrefax, travels to ... read on

09/03/2010

Michael Wood: ‘Five Easy Pieces’

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09/03/2010

Mary-Kay Wilmers: Frank Kermode

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09/03/2010

Letters

The letters page from London Review of Books Volume 32 issue 17 read on

09/03/2010

Table of contents

Table of contents from London Review of Books Volume 32 issue 17 read on



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